Yale Peabody Museum Summer Camps

Summer 2009 Youth Programs

Just added! Two new camps at the end of August on Yale’s West Campus. For more information, click here.

Are you looking for a fun and educational program for your children next summer? Don’t be disappointed — sign up now!

Camp Descriptions

• Around the World in 5 Days
• Astro Adventure I & Astro Adventure II
  
• Biozone I & Biozone II
  
• Bones & Stones: Peabody Anthropology Camp
  
• Discovering Dinosaurs!
  
• Expeditions!
  
• Fantastic Fossils
  
• Illustrating Nature: Peabody Art Camp
  
• Survival!
  
• Terra Firma: Peabody Geology Camp
  

Biozone I

July 13-17, 2009
Session I, for entering 3rd, 4th and 5th graders

Biozone II

July 27-July 31, 2009
Session II, for entering 5th, 6th and 7th graders

$265 Members, $295 Non-members
Enrollment: 30

From 9:00 am to 4:00 pm daily,
with extended day option (from 8:00 to 9:00 am and 4:00 to 5:00 pm)
Registration and Information

Session I

Days will be filled with interactive learning activities about animals, plants, dinosaurs, rocks and minerals, and other topics; special viewing of specimens from the Yale Peabody Museum’s exceptional collections; exciting field trips, and more. The art and science behind natural history dioramas will be the common thread throughout the week. Your child will end the program with a new understanding of the rich interplay among living and nonliving entities on earth in this unforgettable experience.

Session II

Biozone II provides an unparalleled opportunity for kids to learn about the Yale Peabody Museum’s extraordinary holdings and to work with Museum staff to collect, identify, and prepare their own unique set of specimens, some of which will be formally accessioned into the Museum’s collections! In addition, the program will include exciting field trips and interactive learning activities about animals, plants, dinosaurs, rocks and minerals, and more.


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Survival!

July 13-17, 2009
For entering 6th, 7th and 8th graders

$315 Members, $345 Non-members
Enrollment: 30

From 9:00 am to 4:00 pm daily,
with extended day option (from 8:00 to 9:00 am and 4:00 to 5:00 pm)
Registration and Information

If you were transported back in time 10,000 years, could you survive?

Learn the skills that ancient peoples used, including fire-making, tracking, flint-knapping and rope-making, and basic knowledge of edible wild plants.

The Yale Peabody Museum’s archaeological collections of primitive tools will be the inspiration for your efforts, and the week will end with a campout on Thursday night in your own hand-built shelter!


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Bones & Stones: Peabody Anthropology Camp

July 20-24, 2009
For entering 4th, 5th and 6th graders

$265 Members, $295 Non-members
Enrollment: 30

From 9:00 am to 4:00 pm daily,
with extended day option (from 8:00 to 9:00 am and 4:00 to 5:00 pm)
Registration and Information

If you have always been interested in ancient cultures and archaeology, this camp is for you!

Each day of this 5-day program will be devoted to different topics, including archaeology, cultural anthropology, forensic anthropology, Egyptology and art history. Behind-the-scenes tours of the Yale Peabody Museum’s collections, local field trips including a real archaeological dig, and lots of exciting hands-on activities are planned.


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Expeditions!

July 20-24, 2009
For entering 7th, 8th and 9th graders

$290 Members, $320 Non-members
Enrollment: 30

From 9:00 am to 4:00 pm daily,
with extended day option (from 8:00 to 9:00 am and 4:00 to 5:00 pm)
Registration and Information


Expeditions! is a hands-on summer science experience for students interested in doing real science in the real world!

The journey will begin with investigations of the world-renowned Yale Peabody Museum collections, followed by by excursions to explore the environment and collect meaningful scientific data.

Expeditions! is meant to be an engaging, hands-on, brains-on (oh yeah, and let’s not forget FUN!) experience for older kids interested in the environment and natural sciences.


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Discovering Dinosaurs!

July 27-July 31, 2009
For entering 1st, 2nd and 3rd graders

$250 Members, $280 Non-members
Enrollment: 30

From 9:00 am to 4:00 pm daily,
with extended day option (from 8:00 to 9:00 am and 4:00 to 5:00 pm)
Registration and Information


You asked for it! By popular demand, we put together an incredible week all about dinosaurs and other cool prehistoric creatures for our youngest age group.

Through arts and crafts, games, hands-on activities, and explorations of the Museum and beyond, children will discover why dinosaurs are so captivating, and how birds are today’s dinosaurs!


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Astro Adventure I

August 10-14, 2009
Session I, for entering 3rd, 4th and 5th graders

Astro Adventure II

August 3-7, 2009
Session II, for entering 4th, 5th and 6th graders

$265 Members, $295 Non-members
Enrollment: 30

From 9:00 am to 4:00 pm daily,
with extended day option (from 8:00 to 9:00 am and 4:00 to 5:00 pm)
Registration and Information

Session I

We are pleased to include entering 3rd graders in this session of our popular camp all about astronomy and space! We’ll build models, look through telescopes, observe the sun with Yale astronomers, learn about the night sky in a planetarium, and visit the Peabody’s fantastic collection of meteorites.

Parents Be Advised: These engaging and extremely fun field trips will NOT leave the stratosphere!

Session II

In this fun and engaging camp all about astronomy and space we’ll build and launch model rockets, look through telescopes, observe the sun with Yale astronomers, learn about the night sky in a planetarium, and even visit the Peabody’s fantastic collection of meteorites. Special field trips and guest visits will make the week out of this world!


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Illustrating Nature: Peabody Art Camp

August 10-14, 2009
For entering 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th graders

$265 Members, $295 Non-members
Enrollment: 22

From 9:00 am to 4:00 pm daily,
with extended day option (from 8:00 to 9:00 am and 4:00 to 5:00 pm)
Registration and Information


From The Age of Reptiles mural in the Great Hall and the exquisitely painted backdrops of our dioramas to the life-size Torosaurus sculpture outside the Museum, natural history art is an integral part of the Peabody.

In this camp, expert instructors will introduce you to techniques in various media, including pencil, ink, watercolor and clay. One field trip will complement in-house specimen-based work, and all materials will be provided.

Click below to see our clay animation movies created by our Illustrating Nature art camp.

2007 clay animation movie
2009 clay animation movie

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Fantastic Fossils

August 3-7, 2009
For entering 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th graders

$325 Members, $355 Non-members
Enrollment: 30

From 9:00 am to 4:00 pm daily,
with extended day option (from 8:00 to 9:00 am and 4:00 to 5:00 pm)
Registration and Information



The Yale Peabody Museum is well known for its magnificent collection of dinosaur bones, but do you know about our highly regarded collections of other fossil vertebrates, invertebrates and plants?

Devote a whole week to paleontology, from visits to the collection rooms and fossil preparation lab to fossil casting, bone reconstruction and other cool activities, including an overnight field trip to collection sites near Syracuse, New York!


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Around the World in 5 Days

August 17-21, 2009
For entering 1st, 2nd and 3rd graders

$250 Members, $280 Non-members
Enrollment: 30

From 9:00 am to 4:00 pm daily, with extended day option
(from 8:00 to 9:00 am and 4:00 to 5:00 pm)
Registration and Information


This camp for younger children taps into the Yale Peabody Museum’s greatest asset—our collections, representing the tremendous biological and cultural diversity of life on earth.

See remarkable specimens from all over the world, and discover firsthand the extensive diversity of plants, animals, and cultures right here in Connecticut. The week includes plenty of hands-on activities, plus games and snacks from different world cultures each day!


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Terra Firma: Peabody Geology Camp

August 17-21, 2009
For entering 4th, 5th and 6th graders

$265 Members, $295 Non-members
Enrollment: 30

From 9:00 am to 4:00 pm daily,
with extended day option (from 8:00 to 9:00 am and 4:00 to 5:00 pm)
Registration and Information


As far as we are concerned, rocks rock! We’ll visit nearby quarries while learning why rocks and minerals are uniquely important parts of our everyday lives, past and present.

Activities will include arts and crafts, music and dance, plus the chance to start or add to your own rock collection. We'll go behind the scenes in Yale's geology department and take an insider's look at our new Hall of Minerals, Earth, and Space.


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Registration and Information

At the Yale Peabody Museum, it is our goal to engage your child in a hands-on experience that promises to be both challenging and fun!

Below you will find a button that links to the online registration forms necessary to secure your child’s spot in one or more of our programs. Complete all required fields, and all other fields to the extent possible. This registration and your non-refundable deposit holds your child’s place in our Summer Youth Program.

–9:00am) and after-care (4:00–5:00pm) services are available for an additional $30 per week, per service.

There is no registration deadline; however, interested participants are advised to submit applications early as individual program sessions may fill.

Take advantage of discounted program fees for Museum members! Join today! Yale I.D. holders receive the Museum members' rate.

A limited number of full and partial need-based scholarships are available. To be eligibile, those seeking scholarships must apply by April 17, 2009 (you will be asked to submit copies of your family’s most recent tax documents). Other restrictions apply.

If you have any questions, and for more information about applying for a scholarship, contact the Yale Peabody Museum Events Office at peabody.events@yale.edu or 203.432.6646.


Events and Program Information | InfoTape 203.432.5050


Updated: 4 March 2009

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